New fronts are opening up in Europe and Asia in the battle between banks and trading houses to expand their storage hubs for aluminium, a metal meant for use in manufacturing but increasingly viewed as a store of value

Gold traders are bullish for a fourth consecutive week, betting that the Federal Reserve’s pledge to keep interest rates low until late 2014 will extend the metal’s best start to a year in more than three decades

J.P. Morgan will soon announce it has bought a 4.7% stake in the London Metal Exchange (LME) from defunct U.S. brokerage MF Global, two people familiar with the situation said on Tuesday, making it the exchange's largest shareholder

Copper fell more than 1 percent on Tuesday as prospects for demand remained gloomy amid renewed doubts that euro zone economies can tackle their debt and convince the bond markets to lend to them at reasonable rates